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Now, please forgive me if I am in anyway wrong about this but the DNS records are much like the yellow pages or an A to Z of a city. As such the holders of the records should have as much say in the content of the destination as say I have over the content of the dinner table at a randomly selected house somewhere in the world. Furthermore the ISP that has the regestry tag that carries the name server lookups for the DNS records would have even less say.

Legally speaking attempting to pervert the DNS of another person's domain would be a domain hijacking attempt. Am I wrong about this? What if a person used a solicitor to threaten the holder of the tag for the domain to try and force them to remove the name server records for the domain - would that not be a hijacking?

I think it would be.

I, therefore, think that Dr M G Notley is being very naughty. You see Dr M G Notley has had his solicitors try to have the domain decommissioned at source as it were. Naughty, I say, naughty (my opinion only etc etc).

My registrar are being strong armed in the hope that they can be forced to drop the name server information from the DNS records. I have spoken to a person from the company and we have agreed that it is nothing to do with them. But the word harassment occurs to me.

I phoned Nominet who manage the .uk register and no one seemed to have heard of anyone trying this before. I spoke to some very nice people who told me how the due process goes for obtaining the domain name legally and the cost to Mr Notley of going through that process also we talked about his chances of success and what he would have to prove.

So my next step is to... actually I have no intention of tipping my hand to this guy. I find him rude and a little silly (to my mind). So until then I am happy to give interviews via email or IM (timezones permitting) if anyone really wants...